Fanáticas en serie. YouTube, cultura participativa y series de televisión: estudio comparativo de género

The aim is to establish whether women are more involved than men in uploading videos related to television fictional programs. To that end, we analyzed the number of videos uploaded by men or women and the kind of narrative content shared by each gender. The methodology applied was a quantitative analysis, based on a selection of videos from YouTube regarding the 21 series premiered in 2013 in Spanish networks. The research suggests interesting results, mainly that men upload more videos than women do, and that they have more visits and reviews. However, the fanmade videos uploaded by women are more creative and more richly elaborated.